Everyone loves a good ice cream bar in the summer heat, but the ones you get from the grocery store can leave something to be desired. If you make your own, you can add anything you like to the ice cream, and you have control over how much chocolate the ice cream is dipped. Here's how.

We've talked about how to make homemade ice cream in five minutes before. Why not take that ice cream, pack it down nice and thick, and dip it in some chocolate for a hand-held summertime dessert? Over at Chow, there are four great recipes for homemade ice cream bars, even if you don't want to make your own ice cream to fill them. If you do, they'll help you with that too, if you don't want to use our recipe.

They won't save you time or money, but they will give you complete control over the end-product, and they'll get you in the kitchen making something delicious. Have you made your own ice cream, or your own ice cream bars? Let us know how you fared in the comments.